New Sata Harddrive Problem

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rhys100

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I currently have a 120gb sata harddrive with xp installed on it. i was running out of room so i bought a second sata 250gb drive and plugged it in. When i booted up i get the blue screen of death with the error message "0x0000007B" meaning inaccessible boot device. So i figured i need to format the 250gb hardrive before it will boot xp up. how can i format this 250gb sata drive out of windows? i have an old motherboard "abit Av8 3rd eye" so it doesn't recognise the sata drives when installing xp without the floppy drivers.

Can someone please help?

Thanks

Rhys
 
And you get this error just when trying to boot into XP? That's weird, XP should be able to boot without it being formatted, I've done it enough times. Then you use the disk management console to format the drive from windows
 
thats wat i thought..
i also thought that since sata is plug and play that i could boot into xp then plug it in... when i do this my comp continually freezes..for 30 seconds then unfreezes for 4 seconds then freezes again.
 
SATA is supposed to be hot swappable but I don't think most desktops had that feature included in their controller (new ones may).

edit: it seems it could be an IRQ / I/O port problem. Check your BIOS settings
 
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Just a thought, I had a guy bring me a computer with the same thing going on. He had XP on a 80gb SATA and bought a 120gb for storage, pluged in same thing. When he built the computer he had pluged the SATA into the SATA2 slot, when he got his new drive he pluged it into the SATA1 slot, so now the computer tries to boot to the SATA1 slot with the blank drive, all I had to do was change the boot order or just swap the SATA cables around.
 
get the ultimate boot disk, it has seagate and western digital drive formatting programs on it

if i were stranded on a deserted island, and could only have one thing with me, it'd be the ultimate boot disk
 
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